April 17, 2024
Original Ken Barr oil painting Dread Companion Fantasy book cover Frazetta style
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Original Ken Barr oil painting / Illustration Dread Companion Fantasy book cover in style reminiscent of Frank Frazetta. Painting is from paperback cover of Andre Norton's Dread companion. Great painting from a Great in fantasy art. Measures 23.75x16.75 painted in 1980. Signed lower left. Provenance : Heritage Auction. Born in Scotland in 1933, Kenneth John Barr was the son of a Glasgow-based sign-painter to whom he was apprenticed from the age of 15. A reader of adventure, horror and war stories, Ken Barr found post-War Glasgow full of the machinery and drama of war he enjoyed painting. His first covers appeared on Nebula science fiction magazine in the 1950s.After his National Service—which he served with the Army in Egypt—and several years working in London, Barr moved to the USA in 1968 where he became a regular penciller/inker and occasionally writer of strips for DC's various war comics, including Our Army At War , Our Fighting Forces , Battle Album and Star Spangled War Stories in 1969-74. He also produced covers and back-up features for the Warren magazines Eerie , Creepy and Vampirella (1970-72) before becoming a regular cover artist for Marvel, working on Doc Savage , Incredible Hulk and The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1975-78). In the mid-1970s, he found more lucrative work producing books covers (Avon, Random House) and
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